Sacha Molitorisz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3079788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sacha Molitorisz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sacha |
| FAMILY NAME | Molitorisz |
| SIGNATURE | MOLITORISZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6825-3392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A legal cure for news choice overload
Despite an unprecedented abundance of news content, both news avoidance and dissatisfaction are rising. Blending journalism, philosophy and law scholarship, this paper argues that ‘news choice overload’ causes paralysis and poor outcomes as it transfers power to algorithms, thereby harming autonomy and, in turn, democracy. An analysis of Australian and European regulatory responses shows the need for an algorithmic regulator and a transparency re…
Is Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code a Model for Saving Journalism
Implemented in 2021, Australia's world-first news media bargaining code prompted payments of almost AU\$250m annually to flow from Meta and Google to Australian news media businesses. It also prompted international jurisdictions to work toward implementing similar schemes. In June 2024, however, Australia's largest news businesses announced widespread job cuts, blaming Meta's decision not to renew its deals under the code, worth an estimated AU\$…
Promoting rights and accountability in the regulation of misinformation
From Shadow Profiles to Contact Tracing
For many privacy scholars, consent is on life support, if not dead. In July 2020, we held six focus groups in Australia to test this claim by gauging attitudes to consent and privacy, with a spotlight on smartphones. These focus groups included discussion of four case studies: ‘shadow profiles’, eavesdropping by companies on smartphone users, non-consensual government surveillance of its citizens and contact tracing apps developed to combat COVID…
Layoffs, inequity and Covid-19
In Australia and beyond, journalism is reportedly an industry in crisis, a crisis exacerbated by COVID-19. However, the evidence revealing the crisis is often anecdotal or limited in scope. In this unprecedented longitudinal research, we draw on data from the Australian journalism jobs market from January 2012 until March 2020. Using Data Science and Machine Learning techniques, we analyse two distinct data sets: job advertisements (ads) data com…
More top-down than peer-to-peer
In Australia as in the United States, levels of trust in news media remain alarmingly low. In four qualitative workshops held in 2018 in Sydney and Tamworth, 34 participants discussed the ways they access news, their relationship with news media, and how trust might be rebuilt. We also tested the hypothesis that Australians want news sources that are more peer-to-peer and 'like a friend'. Emphatically, participants said they don't want news sourc…
Layoffs, inequity and Covid-19
In Australia and beyond, journalism is reportedly an industry in crisis, a crisis exacerbated by COVID-19. However, the evidence revealing the crisis is often anecdotal or limited in scope. In this unprecedented longitudinal research, we draw on data from the Australian journalism jobs market from January 2012 until March 2020. Using Data Science and Machine Learning techniques, we analyse two distinct data sets: job advertisements (ads) data com…
More top-down than peer-to-peer
In Australia as in the United States, levels of trust in news media remain alarmingly low. In four qualitative workshops held in 2018 in Sydney and Tamworth, 34 participants discussed the ways they access news, their relationship with news media, and how trust might be rebuilt. We also tested the hypothesis that Australians want news sources that are more peer-to-peer and 'like a friend'. Emphatically, participants said they don't want news sourc…
More top-down than peer-to-peer
In Australia as in the United States, levels of trust in news media remain alarmingly low. In four qualitative workshops held in 2018 in Sydney and Tamworth, 34 participants discussed the ways they access news, their relationship with news media, and how trust might be rebuilt. We also tested the hypothesis that Australians want news sources that are more peer-to-peer and 'like a friend'. Emphatically, participants said they don't want news sourc…
From Shadow Profiles to Contact Tracing
For many privacy scholars, consent is on life support, if not dead. In July 2020, we held six focus groups in Australia to test this claim by gauging attitudes to consent and privacy, with a spotlight on smartphones. These focus groups included discussion of four case studies: ‘shadow profiles’, eavesdropping by companies on smartphone users, non-consensual government surveillance of its citizens and contact tracing apps developed to combat COVID…
Layoffs, inequity and Covid-19
In Australia and beyond, journalism is reportedly an industry in crisis, a crisis exacerbated by COVID-19. However, the evidence revealing the crisis is often anecdotal or limited in scope. In this unprecedented longitudinal research, we draw on data from the Australian journalism jobs market from January 2012 until March 2020. Using Data Science and Machine Learning techniques, we analyse two distinct data sets: job advertisements (ads) data com…
A legal cure for news choice overload
Despite an unprecedented abundance of news content, both news avoidance and dissatisfaction are rising. Blending journalism, philosophy and law scholarship, this paper argues that ‘news choice overload’ causes paralysis and poor outcomes as it transfers power to algorithms, thereby harming autonomy and, in turn, democracy. An analysis of Australian and European regulatory responses shows the need for an algorithmic regulator and a transparency re…
Is Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code a Model for Saving Journalism
Implemented in 2021, Australia's world-first news media bargaining code prompted payments of almost AU\$250m annually to flow from Meta and Google to Australian news media businesses. It also prompted international jurisdictions to work toward implementing similar schemes. In June 2024, however, Australia's largest news businesses announced widespread job cuts, blaming Meta's decision not to renew its deals under the code, worth an estimated AU\$…
Promoting rights and accountability in the regulation of misinformation
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Internet privacy (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Freedom of Expression and Defamation (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works)